The Chinese medical team in Zimbabwe on Tuesday handed over a donation of medical equipment to Zimbabwe’s largest referral hospital, the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (PGH), to ramp up its disease preparedness and control capacity.
The medical equipment were donated by the National Health Commission of China to promote the global fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.
Speaking at the handover ceremony at PGH in Harare, Luo Weiqiang, captain of the 18th batch of the Chinese medical team in Zimbabwe, said providing support to Zimbabwe in the time of COVID-19 is a top priority of China.
“Today the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China donated this batch of medical equipment to Parirenyatwa Hospital.
“It is another concrete step to enhance our cooperation,” Luo said.
The donated materials included ventilators, blood oxygen saturation monitors, electrocardiographs, oxygen machines, among other equipment.
Prior to the donation, PGH was relying on only two ECG machines, and patients had to fork large sums of money to get services from private practitioners.
